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Microsoft forces Messenger upgrade for 'security' reasons Microsoft is forcing Windows Live and MSN Messenger users to upgrade to the newest version due to a security update included in that release, according to a posting on a Microsoft blog. Introducing the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies Not too long ago, open source meant starving developers; scant documentation; an ugly, outdated Web site; and software that lived in perpetual beta. Now open source software is becoming big business. “Now hiring” is a common sight on project home pages, and .org and SourceForge sites that used to point straight to source code archives are redirected to .com URLs that celebrate the commercial success of what started out as collaborations among unpaid coders of like mind.  September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT IBM to turn Sametime IM into a family of products IBM is hoping to broaden the appeal of its Sametime enterprise IM software by expanding the current stand-alone offering into a family of products in a bid to better compete with other unified communications players like Microsoft and Cisco. August 21, 9:04 a.m. PDT Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors. August 17, 8:58 a.m. PDT Vulnerability uncovered within Yahoo Messenger A new vulnerability in Yahoo's instant messenger program can potentially cause unwanted code to run on a PC, according to security researchers. August 15, 7:59 a.m. PDT McAfee sets Rootkit Detective free On July 26, McAfee will begin offering a new application called Rootkit Detective, designed to detect and remove dangerous rootkit attacks. The software will also help end-users ward off the threats, as well as funnel new intelligence into the company's ongoing research operations. July 25, 1:12 p.m. PDT AOL's AIM update alert bothers upgrade holdouts Some AIM users are angry about a recent alert message AOL displays on their screens urging them to upgrade to the newest version of the instant messaging software. July 3, 7:06 a.m. PDT A developer's-eye view of Leopard, part I Steve Jobs had a lot of fun at Microsoft's expense over Redmond's difficulties shipping the operating systems that have become Vista and Windows Server 2008. So with Vista shipping by default on new PCs and Windows Server 2008 in a publicly downloadable beta, Apple should be catching hell from the press for making Leopard the last to arrive. June 12, 3:00 a.m. PDT Telephony vendors line up behind Microsoft If Microsoft is muscling in on enterprise telephony vendors' turf, most of those companies right now are just trying to get along. May 22, 4:53 a.m. PDT Microsoft shows off new unified communications phones Microsoft is launching a qualification program for phones that are compatible with its unified communications products. May 14, 5:35 a.m. PDT Yahoo preps Web version of Messenger Yahoo introduced Wednesday evening a new browser-based version of its Messenger instant messaging service, so that users can access their accounts without needing the PC application on the machine they're using. May 3, 4:44 a.m. PDT Kill IM -- or at least control it Give them an expense account, and you know part of that money goes toward buying dinner for their significant others. Get them a company car, and there's no way that's not being driven for personal use at least some of the time. May 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT FaceTime offers Skype manager for business A new security product has been released that manages certain aspects of Skype's VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) application, which may assuage fears from IT managers that the Skype program may save on phone bills but pose a security risk. April 25, 8:43 a.m. PDT Windows Meeting Space is worthy of conversation Living with Vista is an ongoing project, rife with application incompatibilities and instances of people checking out my Mac in Starbucks, then shooting me dirty looks when they spy the Vista logo. Hey, I like Office 2007, and Parallels rules, so back off. But there's more to Vista than the new Office. Live there for a while and you'll bump into new features frequently. April 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft gets into VoIP ... and confuses us Impenetrable questions I've been pondering: The difference between acute dyslexia and the way Linux programmers name their software. How Apple Store sales personnel differ from those at the Clearasil human testing lab. Whether the proliferation of Law & Order: X and Ebola virus outbreaks are somehow connected. The difference between Office Communications Server and Microsoft Response Point. March 28, 3:00 a.m. PST AOL's new Web mail beta adds more IM integration In the coming weeks, AOL will upgrade the beta version of its latest Web mail offering to include an expanded integrated instant messaging capability. March 26, 12:49 p.m. PST AIM plug-in IDs users' locations Users of AOL's AIM instant messaging system now have access to a plug-in that identifies their geographic location in a more precise manner than a similar plug-in developed last year. March 19, 2:57 p.m. PST Gadget puts Google Talk on Web pages A new Google gadget lets users embed the company's Talk instant-messaging service in Web pages, expanding the reach of the product, which was originally introduced as a downloadable PC application. March 15, 11:54 a.m. PST Unraveling the Communications Server mystery Certain things exist without explanation: Ben Affleck's career; the micro PC; Tofurky. For many, LCS (Live Communications Server) 2005 fell into this category. Is it IM? Is it voice over the network? Does it use Messenger or something else? Redmond has recognized the Great Mystery of LCS and is looking to make things easier to understand with the platform's upcoming release, now to be called OCS (Office Communications Server) 2007. March 14, 3:00 a.m. PST iAnywhere adds IM to mobile management suite IAnywhere Solutions is adding an instant messaging (IM) component to Information Anywhere Suite, a set of products for managing applications on PDAs and other wireless devices. February 28, 4:26 a.m. PST Dodgy program advertised on MSN Messenger Banner advertisements for a security application said to report false or inflated threats appeared for at least a few days on Microsoft's instant messaging (IM) program, prompting warnings from security analysts. February 20, 5:04 a.m. PST LOLing all the way to the bank Maxime Seguineau helped found enterprise messaging firm Antepo in February 2000, just as reality was puncturing the hype-filled bubble of the dot-com craze. Back then, IM was mostly for teens and college students, who used free, online chat networks by AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo to keep in touch. Seguineau saw past the crazy colors of ICQ, the cartoonlike appeal of AIM, and the incomprehensible shorthand of IMers, to IM’s promise for the enterprise, which he dubbed “availability based communications,” now called “presence.” February 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Today’s end-user: Hardly working The U.S. workplace is the new dysfunctional family. I’ve reached that conclusion after stumbling on a string of statistics that make me wonder how American companies ever get anything done, much less show a profit. February 5, 3:00 a.m. PST 12 quick IT productivity wins Stop us if this story sounds familiar. You’ve been asked to a) keep your infrastructure humming and b) come up with innovative ways to use technology to boost the bottom line. Meanwhile, your resources are stretched tighter than a $2 string on a banjo and you spend so much time putting out fires you should be wearing a helmet and carrying a hose. February 5, 3:00 a.m. PST Windows Live Messenger for Vista available Microsoft has released the final version of its new IM client optimized for Windows Vista. January 31, 11:20 a.m. PST Nuvoiz aims to be Skype of the enterprise Nuvoiz, a new company focused on developing mobile VOIP applications, launched on Tuesday its first products designed to be enterprise alternatives to Skype. January 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Video Blogging from a war zone Mainstream media outlets were making lots of hay about announcements out of last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, such as Sony’s promise to equip most of its televisions with a module that can receive Internet video content. January 15, 3:00 a.m. PST Yahoo to preview Messenger for Windows Vista Yahoo will give users a preview of what it will be like to use a new and improved version of Yahoo Messenger on Microsoft's Windows Vista at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show this year. January 8, 4:20 a.m. PST Microsoft Collaboration 101 I spent my second holiday season in a row at Pebble Beach. I won't gloat too much about that, except to say that when you're standing on the 7th at Pebble, the word Vista takes on a whole new meaning. Everything was great until I got back to the hotel, checked e-mail, and saw a reader missive complaining about my coverage of SharePoint and Groove. January 3, 3:00 a.m. PST Beyond search: Google specialty services Even people who have never opened a Web browser in their life know about Google -- but the undisputed king of search is about much more than just keywords, text ads, and ten-per-page results. December 28, 1:02 p.m. PST 3 Group sets limits on 'unlimited' mobile plan 3 Group, the mobile telecommunications operator owned by Hutchison Whampoa, has set limits on usage of its new "unlimited" mobile data plan in the U.K. December 4, 7:30 a.m. PST Foley scandal lessons: Manage IM use The tempest surrounding former Congressman Mark Foley's sexually explicit instant message conversations with minors has turned into a political scandal, while offering a warning for corporate IT groups. November 15, 1:31 p.m. PST AOL upgrades AIM with offline messaging, chat logs AOL has upgraded its popular AIM instant messaging service with new features like the ability to send messages to offline users and to store IM sessions in a PC. November 15, 4:34 a.m. PST Office Live a smart move Microsoft was handing out press accounts to Office Live Premium about a week ago, so we're tinkering with it. We'll do the hands-on part somewhere else, but it's worth discussing Microsoft's strategy here. Bottom line: This is the best New Economy, Web 2.0 Internet move I've seen Microsoft make in a long time. November 9, 3:00 a.m. PST Google translates services to new languages Google has translated the private-label e-mail, instant messaging, telephony, and calendaring services it offers Web site operators into 17 new languages. November 2, 7:21 a.m. PST MessageLabs obtains $60M loan to boost research MessageLabs, one of a handful of smaller security vendors competing in a cut-throat market, has secured a $60 million loan that it will use to bolster its research and development efforts, the company said Thursday. October 19, 6:43 a.m. PDT Update: Microsoft, Orange to link IM networks Microsoft and Orange will link their instant messaging systems later this year, allowing up to 375 million people to chat with each other using their PC or mobile phone, the companies said Wednesday. In reality, take-up will be much more limited. October 18, 9:24 a.m. PDT Microsoft revokes MVP status of adware distributor The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away. One week after it named the creator of a Windows Messenger add-on to its list of Most Valued Professionals (MVPs), Microsoft has revoked the award after critics pointed out that the program is used to distribute adware. 4:34 a.m. PDT Demofall to highlight Java Wares The Demofall show has never had quite the cache of the bigger Demo conference, but it’s still a fun time, as startups from across the tech sector give their patented six-minute pitches for why their company’s product will change the world. September 25, 3:00 a.m. PDT Technology with no past To the extent that it’s possible, I’m declaring today the beginning of recorded history in information technology. On this day, the phrase “information technology,” abbreviated IT, came into being as shorthand for electronic devices that aid humans in storage and sharing of, analysis of, protection of, and access to significant amounts of digitized content. Content? That’s anything you’re capable of holding in your brain for even a nanosecond. IT is not a department or a group of people. It’s a smart phone. It’s a room full of SPARC servers. A telephone headset? A keyboard? I don’t know. They’re new terms. We’ll work that out as we go. I do know that if we didn’t have such things, information technology would be inaccessible. September 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT New AIM worm may prove difficult to fight A sophisticated computer worm spreading via AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) is setting up a botnet that may be difficult to combat, security researchers said. September 19, 5:25 a.m. PDT Partners show off apps for IBM's revamped Sametime The update to its Lotus Sametime software that IBM has been promoting for months will launch Wednesday, and the company plans to show off not only the product but also partner applications built using its new extensibility platform. September 13, 4:42 a.m. PDT Update: AOL dials up developers for VOIP service AOL LLC will open up its AIM Phoneline to external developers to let them create hardware devices and software applications for this Internet telephony service. September 7, 4:03 a.m. PDT Steering clear of proprietary messaging Open source tools and e-mail share a long history. Mail servers such as Exim, Postfix, and Sendmail enjoy widespread use, to say nothing of a healthy assortment of open source mail clients, from Mozilla Thunderbird to Pine. But e-mail isn’t the be-all and end-all of enterprise messaging. For advanced features such as group calendaring, shared address books, and IM integration, enterprise customers typically have had just two options: IBM’s Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange. September 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Update: AOL 9.0 accused of 'badware behavior' AOL LLC's free Internet client software has earned the company a slap on the wrist from StopBadware.org, a consortium set up to combat malicious software. In a report set to be released Monday, the group advises users to steer clear of the software because of its "badware behavior." August 28, 10:47 a.m. PDT Google offers tools for small business These days it seems like every time Google slaps its logo on a technology, the earth trembles. The company makes no secret of its interest in developing a suite of office productivity tools. Still, the news Monday that Google is launching such a suite for small to midsize businesses will prompt hasty meetings in Redmond and elsewhere. August 28, 3:00 a.m. PDT Businesses to spend big on wireless data Businesses in Western Europe will spend around $12.7 billion on wireless data services by 2010, up more than 50 percent from last year, as they provide more tools for workers to be productive on the move, according to new research from Strategy Analytics. August 24, 5:34 a.m. PDT Microsoft, Nortel partnership moves forward Microsoft and Nortel Networks have been busy in the month since their unified communications partnership was announced, forming joint marketing teams and planning products together. August 23, 4:12 a.m. PDT AOL acquires chat, IM vendor Userplane AOL has acquired instant-messaging and chat software vendor Userplane, which has licensed its chat technology to more than 100,000 Web sites and online communities, AOL announced Monday. August 14, 9:03 a.m. PDT IBM preps Linux version of Sametime IBM is porting Lotus Sametime to Linux, the first time this enterprise instant messaging platform will support the popular open source operating system. August 14, 4:30 a.m. PDT Skype, iSkoot sign mobile phone deal Skype will help market an application that will put its contact list and VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) and instant messaging services on high-end mobile phones. August 9, 4:56 a.m. PDT Microsoft to add Speech Server to communications hub Microsoft has found a new home for its Speech Server product in its plan to provide a centralized hub for corporate instant messaging, voice over Internet Protocol, video conferencing, and other communications applications. August 8, 7:09 a.m. PDT Microsoft gives AV vendors cause to sweat I could do the Microsoft 12-step column about Redmond’s recently released "Twelve Tenets to Promote Competition," but that would be like being a comedian the week that Cheney shot his hunting buddy: just too easy. Instead, I’m going to review the strategy behind Microsoft’s new Forefront security family. Might not be as easy as blasting the 12 canons of Redmondian goodness to shreds, but it’s probably more informative. July 27, 3:00 a.m. PDT Scatterchat secures IM for dissidents People trying to communicate across oppressive national firewalls could be interested in ScatterChat, a secure IM (instant messaging) application developed by an international group of hackers, human rights activists, lawyers, and security experts. July 24, 5:15 a.m. PDT AOL launches AIM Pro for business users AOL launched a new, free, instant messaging application for business users on Wednesday. AIM Pro Professional Edition integrates with Microsoft Outlook corporate directories and calendars, encrypts messages and scans them for viruses, and offers quick access to business conferencing services from WebEx Communications, the company said. July 19, 4:05 a.m. PDT Update: Microsoft, Nortel join on unified comms Microsoft Corp. and Nortel Networks Ltd. will unify their efforts to develop "unified communications" products to break down the barriers between telephony, voice mail, e-mail and instant-messaging systems. The companies have struck a four-year alliance to jointly develop and sell unified communications systems, they said Tuesday. July 18, 7:43 a.m. PDT Microsoft, Yahoo IM clients finally to chat each other up For the first time, Microsoft and Yahoo will allow interoperability between the consumer versions of their instant-messaging (IM) clients, the companies said Wednesday. July 12, 4:08 p.m. PDT Windows apps cross over to the Mac Owners of Intel-based Macintosh computers are still waiting for versions of many of their favorite applications that are built for the new hardware. Although Apple's code translation technology is a marvel, it's no substitute for software that runs natively on the x86 platform. But Mac owners will soon have a new source of professional-grade, commercial software for their beloved machines. The catch is that the software was meant to run on Windows. July 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT IM as a unified collaboration platform Is the ability to respond quickly to the right situation or to the right person at the right time at the very core of how your company conducts business? My guess is there are fewer and fewer companies that would answer that question in the negative. July 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Yahoo-MSN miss IM interoperability date Yahoo Inc. and MSN Messenger instant messaging users will have to wait a bit longer for the promised interoperability between the two services. July 3, 5:46 a.m. PDT Common sense the key to managing IM There is no need for companies to fear the use of instant messaging by their employees, the head developer of the Trillian IM client said Thursday. June 22, 5:12 a.m. PDT Yahoo opens IM to external developers Yahoo is opening up its IM (instant-messaging) network so that external developers can extend its functionality with new applications. June 19, 4:24 p.m. PDT Windows Live Messenger to go prime time Windows Live Messenger, the next-generation version of Microsoft's instant messaging service, will be available for download in final form right after midnight Tuesday, U.S. Eastern Time. June 19, 4:22 p.m. PDT Yahoo enters enterprise waters with partner X1 X1 Technologies will release an upgrade of its desktop search tool for enterprises that uses Yahoo technology, X1 plans to announce on Monday. June 19, 4:13 a.m. PDT AOL tests AIM for the workplace AOL has begun publicly testing AIM Pro Professional Edition (PE), a version of its AIM instant messaging service for workplace users, it announced Wednesday. June 14, 5:09 p.m. PDT Microsoft gets chatty with new Webcams Microsoft on Tuesday is expected to announce two videoconferencing Webcams that simplify online video chat and can create photo blog entries on Microsoft's MSN Spaces community site. June 13, 6:33 a.m. PDT AOL extends AIM developer program AOL is expanding the developer program for its AIM instant messaging network with new tools for providing PC-to-PC voice communications, creating IM robots and detecting users' geographic location, the Dulles, Virginia, company will announce Monday. June 12, 5:32 a.m. PDT MessageLabs launches encrypted IM software MessageLabs launched on Monday encrypted IM (instant-message) software, targeting companies that use consumer IM clients for collaboration and document sharing. June 12, 4:58 a.m. PDT Hack Tales: E-mail archiving the home-brew way Compliance is a painful reality for many IT administrators. Among the growing list of tasks, e-mail archiving is becoming a major requirement. Not only are various government audits interested in e-mail archiving data, but legal actions have begun to call on this information with increasing frequency. The demand for e-mail archive retrieval has become so great, in fact, that corporate e-mail hosting services -- Microsoft’s new Exchange Hosted Services, for example -- have begun adding high-availability archiving to their service menus. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft gives Live voice to mobile devices Microsoft will let vendors include Windows Live voice services on mobile devices through a new toolkit that will be available in the next few months. May 24, 9:36 a.m. PDT Imagining a day without Microsoft Did you ever hear the warning, “be careful what you wish for, it might come true?” Well, because Microsoft is the company most people love to hate, I decided to ask a cross section of industry cognoscenti this simple question: What would happen if Microsoft and all of its technology disappeared tomorrow? May 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT Yahoo IM worm installs bogus browser Malware writers have created a new worm that installs a new browser and plays screeching music. May 22, 4:24 a.m. PDT Trillian dumped from Google Pack Google Inc. has dropped Trillian from its Google Pack software suite with nary an explanation, prompting a terse reaction from Cerulean Studios, maker of the popular instant messaging application. May 19, 2:54 p.m. PDT Peering brings IP services to wider audience Peering is poised to break down the biggest hurdle preventing the widespread and low-cost use of cutting-edge services based on IP (Internet Protocol), said speakers at the VON Europe conference in Stockholm. Those services include integrated video conferencing, media sharing, high-quality audio, and secure, integrated instant messaging. May 17, 8:15 a.m. PDT VON: 'V' is not just for voice anymore It's telling that the acronym VON isn't spelled out anywhere on the VON conference Web sites. That may be because while VON may have once stood for "voice on the 'net," today, the IP (Internet Protocol) networks that support voice services are increasingly carrying a wider array of services. May 16, 9:31 a.m. PDT Nokia adds VOIP to Internet tablet Nokia has updated the operating system for its Wi-Fi Internet tablet device, adding support for voice-over-IP and instant messaging, the company said on Tuesday. May 16, 4:14 a.m. PDT Zenprise spots Microsoft Exchange failures If there’s one enterprise application that bedevils IT, it’s Microsoft Exchange. It can be difficult to manage, difficult to troubleshoot, and requires specialized storage management support in large enterprises. Not to mention that its client software frequently corrupts user mailboxes. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Zimbra's Web-based platform takes aim at conventional e-mail Managing a high-volume e-mail system using traditional tools can be a demanding and costly task. That’s why Zimbra wants to rewrite the book on enterprise messaging. “It’s a clean-slate view of the world,” says CEO Satish Dharmaraj. May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft releases Windows Live Messenger beta Microsoft has released a beta of Windows Live Messenger, the next version of its MSN Messenger instant messaging service, it announced Tuesday. May 9, 4:13 a.m. PDT Yahoo caused Chinese writer's 10-year sentence Yahoo Inc.'s Hong Kong subsidiary provided information to Chinese authorities that led to the imprisonment of writer Wang Xiaoning on charges of incitement to subvert state power, a human rights group said. April 28, 4:29 a.m. PDT Yahoo mulls free Wi-Fi for its IM users Yahoo is considering giving users of Yahoo Messenger free access to tens of thousands of Wi-Fi hot spots worldwide so they can engage in instant messaging, including voice communications, while unplugged from their regular home or office Internet connection. April 19, 11:09 a.m. PDT Helio bundles Yahoo into phones Helio, the U.S. mobile service provider formed by EarthLink and SK Telecom, continues to line up content services prior to launch, announcing on Thursday a tie-up with Yahoo. April 13, 6:20 a.m. PDT Yahoo, BlackBerry plan tighter integration Yahoo and Research In Motion are working to extend and enhance the way Yahoo services are delivered to BlackBerry devices, the companies plan to announce Wednesday at the CTIA Wireless 2006 conference in Las Vegas. April 5, 4:17 a.m. PDT Verizon launches secure IM service Verizon Communications is offering businesses a hosted IM (instant messaging) service designed to offer protection against Internet threats such as worms and viruses, the company announced Wednesday. April 5, 4:13 a.m. PDT Reinventing the intranet In an interview long ago, Marc Andreessen told me about the moment he knew Netscape’s business plan would succeed. That plan, as you may recall, was modeled on Gillette’s: give away razors (browsers and mail/news clients) and sell blades (enterprise servers). For Andreessen, the magical moment came when, shortly after the word “intranet” was coined, he heard it echoing all around him in a restaurant. April 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Lycos to enter 'Net phone fray Lycos plans to launch on Monday a VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) phone application, its first serious entry in years to the now red-hot market of Internet telephony. March 27, 4:11 a.m. PST Product previews Sonic Software revs enterprise service bus Sonic Software today announced Sonic ESB 7.0, an upgrade to the company’s SOA platform. It brings the Sonic Workbench to the Eclipse IDE; incorporates support for advanced Web services standards WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-Security, WS-Addressing, and WS-Policy; and introduces a lighter-weight approach to high availability through a new mode in the Continuous Availability Architecture, which the company says provides highly reliable and available brokered communications without the latency of persistent messaging. Sonic ESB 7.0 will be available in April. Sonic ESB 7.0, Sonic Software March 27, 3:00 a.m. PST Yahoo delivers Net phone feature in U.S. IM client Yahoo plans on Wednesday to activate Internet phone capabilities for Yahoo Messenger users in the U.S., a little over three months after announcing this feature. March 22, 4:39 a.m. PST Hutchison's 3 signs deal with Microsoft for 3G services Hutchison Whampoa's 3 Group has signed a deal to make Microsoft's MSN Messenger and Hotmail services available to its 3G (third-generation) mobile subscribers in several countries, the company said in a statement. March 21, 4:31 a.m. PST Modern strategies for managing Microsoft Exchange Let’s face it: administering a Microsoft-based network inevitably means dealing with Exchange Server. Microsoft continues to lead the messaging market in new-account sales “by a significant margin,” according to Erica Rugullies, principal analyst at Forrester Research. That’s amazing success when you consider that today, with e-mail already a staple of every corporate network, leading the market isn’t about finding new customers so much as it is about taking them away from someone else. March 16, 3:00 a.m. PST A first look at Microsoft Exchange Server 12 The basic questions of when the next version of exchange will arrive and how much it will cost remain vague. Answers can be summed up as “end of 2006/early 2007” and “in line with current Exchange pricing.” Still, while many of the details remain confidential, Microsoft did consent to give InfoWorld a look at some of the goodies that the forthcoming edition, currently code-named Exchange 12, will bring us. March 16, 3:00 a.m. PST The Internet is flat; AOL just doesn't know it In his bestselling book, The World Is Flat, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman observed that geography is no longer an advantage in today's globalized economy. There's no guaranteed "high ground"; a company in the United States doesn't have any inherent advantage over a company in Bangalore or Shanghai. March 13, 3:00 a.m. PST RIM adds instant messaging to BlackBerry server The latest version of Research In Motion's BlackBerry Enterprise Server, introduced at Cebit on Friday, supports enterprise instant messaging and supports the development of applications that mobilize corporate applications, RIM said. March 10, 5:13 a.m. PST AOL opens AIM service to external developers America Online is opening its AIM instant messaging network to external developers, the Dulles, Virginia, provider of Internet access and online services plans to announce Monday. March 6, 4:07 a.m. PST AOL hops back into business IM America Online is developing a version of its instant messaging service for workplace use, an attempt to fortify the consumer-oriented AIM with the security, collaboration, and IT management features that businesses require. February 27, 3:00 a.m. PST Update: AOL developing workplace version of AIM America Online is developing a version of its IM (instant message) service for workplace use, an attempt to give the consumer-oriented AIM the security, collaboration and IT management features businesses require, the Dulles, Virginia company plans to announce on Tuesday. February 21, 4:25 p.m. PST Players jockey for role in mobile IM Instant messaging over mobile phones emerged as a key topic at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, with three major announcements made within a 24-hour period beginning Monday. February 15, 10:43 a.m. PST NTT develops secure instant messaging system Engineers at NTT Communications have developed a secure instant-messaging system that supports logging and archiving of messages to satisfy compliance regulations and can interact with some third-party instant messaging networks. February 10, 4:21 a.m. PST Update: Gmail becomes a Google Talk interface Google Inc. is tightening the link between Gmail and Google Talk by allowing users to conduct instant messaging text chat sessions from within the Webmail service's interface, the Mountain View, California, company plans to announce on Tuesday. February 7, 2:30 p.m. PST Researchers find that popular apps have mismanaged security Big-name companies like America Online Inc. (AOL) and Adobe Systems Inc. could do a better job of writing secure software, according to a recent report by two Princeton University researchers. February 6, 1:10 p.m. PST > Application development > Collaboration > Applications > Collaboration > Applications > Internet applications > Applications |
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